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Douglas MarillierDouglas Anthony MarillierBorn: 24 April 1978, Salisbury (now Harare)Major Teams: Midlands, Zimbabwe. Known As: Douglas Marillier Batting Style: Right Hand Bat Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break Other: Wicket-Keeper Test Debut: Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Wellington, Only Test, 2000/01 Latest Test: Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka at Galle, 3rd Test, 2001/02 ODI Debut: Zimbabwe v New Zealand at Bulawayo, 2nd ODI, 2000/01 Latest ODI: Zimbabwe v England at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03 Career Statistics:TESTS (including 12/01/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 5 7 1 185 73 30.83 42.33 0 2 2 0 O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 102.4 21 322 11 29.27 4-57 0 0 56.0 3.13 ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS (including 18/09/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 32 30 4 419 56* 16.11 72.24 0 2 8 0 O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ Bowling 182.2 4 878 21 41.80 4-38 1 0 52.0 4.81 FIRST-CLASS (1998/99 - 2002/03; last updated 10/11/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 28 50 4 1957 163 42.54 6 12 23 0 O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 355.3 51 1326 34 39.00 4-44 0 0 62.7 3.72 LIST A LIMITED OVERS (1998/99 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 49 46 5 907 117 22.12 1 4 13 0 O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ Bowling 243.2 1163 27 43.07 4-38 1 0 54.0 4.77 - Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS. StatsGuru Filters for Douglas MarillierArticles about Douglas Marillier
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Profile:Doug Marillier is one of Zimbabwe's most determined young cricketers, and he has a clear liking for big scores. His career is all the more remarkable for the fact that he was once so badly injured in a car accident that it was feared he would never be able to walk, let alone play again. Doug has a strong family background in the game - his father Tony was a stalwart for the Police Cricket Club for years in the sixties and seventies, represented the national side in a couple of one-day matches, but without success. Doug grew up in Harare, apart from a couple of years spent in Masvingo. Doug attended North Park primary school, the same school that Andy and Grant Flower attended, and won a place in the school Colts team when in Grade 3, playing with and against boys who were mostly two years older than he. He progressed to Eaglesvale High School. He was soon opening the innings and the centuries began to come. He pays tribute to his coach at the time, Barry Lake, who he recalls produced a great many good cricketers, including the Marilliers, the Matambanadzos and the Campbells. In 1994, at the age of 16, he played for the Mashonaland Under-19 team in the inter-provincial competition. Two weeks later he was involved in a horrific car accident. A truck pulled out directly in front of the car in which he was travelling, and they ran straight into it. He broke both femurs; he had a compound fracture of the right leg, severing the main artery, and the bone in his left leg was crushed just above the knee. He was in a wheelchair for three months, and missed a whole year of cricket; at the time many thought he might well never play again. While he was recovering and still unable to play himself, Doug involved himself in coaching, and a bit of umpiring, to stay involved in the game. Doug himself never lost faith that he would one day play again, and this belief helped him through a difficult time. He finally returned to play in a school match almost a year after the accident - he padded away the first ball, to be given out lbw. After this Doug went from strength to strength, and his final record for the Eaglesvale first team included nine centuries and two double-centuries. In his Lower Sixth year at school, Doug was selected for the Zimbabwe Under-18 team as captain. Doug joined Harare Sports Club at the tender age of 11, although he did not get a game until he was about 15. He stayed at the club until the age of 19, but was unable to command a place in the first team, so he moved to Alexandra Sports Club. He made his highest league score of 130 for them against his former team. Doug has not kept wicket regularly since he played for the national Under-18 team, but he still considers himself a useful stand-in 'stopper' and can take over at times when the regular keeper may be injured. After leaving school at the end of 1997, Doug coached for three months at Watershed College, and then went to England to play for Kenilworth in the Birmingham League. He scored a record 1207 league runs for them at an average of about 68. They asked him to return in 1999, which he did, scoring 1218 runs this time. He planned to return to the Birmingham League in 2000, to play for Bromsgrove this time, but his selection for the Zimbabwe A tour to Sri Lanka prevented him from doing so. This gave him three months without cricket after four or five years without a break, but he felt the break did him good. In 1999 he won selection as a member of the first intake of students in the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy. The highlights of his year were a couple of centuries he scored against local teams. Doug's promise and determination were so highly regarded that he was selected as the one young Zimbabwe player to visit the Australian Academy for two and a half weeks. After making a century for the Academy against the New Zealanders in a warm-up match before the first one-day international he was named in the squad for the three-match one-day series, and replaced Craig Wishart as opening partner to Alistair Campbell in the second match, at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. He was lucky enough to receive his first ball on his legs, enabling him to put it away for three to midwicket. He offered a couple of difficult chances but went on to contribute 27 of an opening partnership of 83, a major factor in the eventual winning of the match, before pulling a long hop to midwicket, much to his annoyance. He bettered this with 47 in the second match, this time putting on 97 with Alistair, and he had made an immediate impression on the international game. On the extended tour of Sharjah, India, New Zealand and Australia. Opening the batting in five one-day internationals, his highest score was only 11, but the tour selectors persevered with him, putting him down to number seven, where he scored 38 against India. He also made his Test debut against New Zealand, scoring 28. His lack of consistency meant that he did not play in the triangular tournament in Australia, which also included West Indies, until the final match. He could hardly have had a more testing experience, as a fine Zimbabwe batting performance after Australia scored over 300 meant that he came in at number seven needing to score 15 in the final over, bowled by Glenn McGrath, to win the match. He moved across to the first two balls he received from McGrath and flicked them over his shoulder to fine leg for boundaries, reviving hopes of an incredible Zimbabwe victory. But he was just unable to complete the job, and his team lost by one run. His two courageous and unorthodox boundary strokes, though, made him a legend, temporarily at least, with the shot becoming known as `the Marillier'. He failed to keep his place against Bangladesh, and decided to take up a club appointment in England rather than stay at home and hope for selection against India and West Indies. He won back his place in the one-day side against England, but failed again with the bat; it was surprisingly his bowling that kept him in the team, after he took four wickets for 38 against England at Bulawayo and continued thereafter to bowl his flighted off-breaks usefully. His unorthodox batting was highlighted during a quite brilliant half-century to win a one-day international against India in March 2002, resurrecting the Zimbabwe innings from near-death. As a batsman Doug tends to favour the leg side, as did his father, and admits to a tendency to play across the line if he is not careful. At present he is more confident facing pace rather than spin, and prefers one of the first three positions in the batting order; he likes to open in one-day matches, but prefers three in the longer game. He can field in virtually any position, usually taking the slips or covers, but he has a good arm and can also field on the boundary (John Ward).
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